The peak oil crisis: a letter from Baghdad
Like the soldiers surveyed in Baghdad, a critical mass of Americans and their political leaders are simply not ready to accept the consequences of what is about to befall us.
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil, prices & supplies – June 11
Oil price leaps to year’s high
BP’s Tony Hayward warns of dwindling demand for oil
Are we running out of oil? The world in energy statistics
Lufthansa lashes out at speculators
Aleklett: Highly vulnerable to oil shortages
Coal & minerals depletion
Imported minerals, metals fuel U.S. shift to homegrown power
Goodbye fossil fuel dependence, hello rare earth dependence!
U.S. foresees a thinner cushion of coal
Have we reached peak coal?
Peak oil notes – Jun 11
A weekly round-up including:
– Prices and production
– Gas prices
Rock vs. hard place vs. immovable object
Rock, meet hard place. Hard place, meet rock. Rock, over here is known as “the economy.” Hard place, on the other side, can be described as “our energy situation.” Because while green shoots might look awfully good to a lot of people who are desperate to have the economy go back to what it was, we should remind ourselves that “what it was” involved awfully high energy prices.
Peak oil = peak demand?
People concerned with the economic problems attending peak oil—myself included—have labored under the mistaken assumption that winning an argument with CERA about the world’s upstream exploration & production prospects matters. I don’t think it matters at all, at least not as far as CERA and the Powers That Be are concerned. If CERA is making money and telling a good story, and they are, they are winning as far as IHS is concerned. The peak demand story maintains the status quo, so everybody in our Nation’s Capital is happy too. Win-win.
CERA official acknowledges “peak oil is here”
Speaking at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC on 8 June, CERA Global Oil Group Managing Director Jim Burkhard began and ended his talk by stating that “CERA acknowledges that peak oil is here, you heard it from a CERA person.”
Prices & supplies – June 10
Canada export agency sees $70 oil as unsustainable
$70 oil menaces budding recovery
Proposition: global effort to model largest oil fields
Nation & energy – June 10
Choosing Iran’s Next Leader
Europe’s pipeline politics
Energy fuels new ‘Great Game’ in Europe
Transport – June 10
U.S. trains take longer now than 30-60 years ago
Oil’s Ascent To Ground Airlines Again
Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include infrastructure and supply chains
Media & persuasion – June 10
Climate change theatre
Calling Earth from the Air: world release of green movie ‘Home’
It’s the end of the world as we know it (annotated)
Your Chance to See ‘In Transition’, the emerging plans for its release, as well as an appeal for help in finishing it…
United States – June 9
Lagging Recognition
Industry Defends Drilling, Ignores Water Contamination
Upping the Ante
